Stephen King & the success of his 6-part serial novel, The Green Mile(1st part pub. 1996 APR; 1999; made into 1999 movie); Rusch has novelizations Star Trek: The Ring of Tautee(1996), Day of Honor: Treaty's Law(1997) with Dean Wesley Smith

N-1998 HUG, LOC, short story; story title comes from opening scene in Hamlet, quote "no planets strike, no fairy takes, nor witch has power to charm" during Xmas season; combined with the legend that animals can talk at midnight on Xmas Eve

"I grew up on King Arthur & had several ideas for stories about him ... in my head ... in watching the news & reading the paper, it makes you realize how different a palce the world is now than ... 'then'"; see website at www.sff.net/people/carroll.brown

1st pub. by Triskell Press in 1995; every year he writes a short story for his wife, MaryAnn Harris, which he also pub. as a chapbook & gives to his friends for Xmas; these chapbooks to be coll. in Triskell Tales(2000)

warm-blooded vs. cold-blooded, comparisons; terms used for both; how each system works, & their history on Earth; how internal temperature is maintained in w-b, & the problems of heat exhaustion, heat stroke, frostbite; hibernation, temporary heterothermy

about story, "I stumbled across a hand-made house in ruinous condition ... only birds had lived there ..."; has sf novel Tech-Heaven(1995), in which a woman becomes a fugitive trying to save her husband with outlawed life-extension technology(B&C)

Wizard of Oz(1937), the film that made K.K.R.'s "love for fantasy take root," a forgotten treasure her husband took her to see on the big screen; intro to a new irregular column, Forgotten Treasues, "classics (that) exist in fiction," by Mike Resnick

N-1998 LOC, nv; he models the town in this story on the stories his father told him about Princeton, WV, ... from the 30s & 40s, "the strong bonds of family ... are infinitely complex ... & the story is in some respect an attempt to capture ... (them)"

Sarah Shankman: I Still Miss My Man But My Aim Is Getting Better; William Gibson: Idoru; Nick Bantock: The Venetian's Wife; de Lint also reviews books for Barnes & Nobles online, & has been on judge/juryship panels for the Nebula & World Fantasy Awards

N-1997 NEB, ss; he writes, "This story presents my Grand Unification Theory of the universe, proving the mysteries of romance, physics, country western music, & the contrary nature of cats are all local manifestations of the same universal force"

4th story in F&SF in Lingster series; has The Shaper Exile novel seq., The Garden of the Shaped(1987), Shaper's Legacy(1989), Shaping the Dawn(1989), a planetary romance about three separate genetic versions of human stock on a new planet(Clute)

planets, Mars; Part 1 of 2; 3 major scientific discoveries in 1996 suggest possibility of life on Mars, elsewhere; microbes found at undersea hot volcanic vent; Martian meteorite shows hints of life; satellite Europa found to have cracks in its icy crust

some sf editors & publishers believe readers are "style deaf" when it is they who are publishing sf that adopt "stylistic prose at the expense of narrative ... publishing books that lack narrative drive—lack storytelling"

his 1st pub. short story; professional freelance writer, makes his living as a nf writer; managing editor of Detroit Medical News, a weekly news mag. for physicians, & the Bulletin of the Michigan Psychiatric Society

(1933- ) 1st story in his Azalea Place, New Orleans series; also in F&SF 1968 FEB under ps. Chet Arthur; born & now lives in New Orleans; spent last 25 years working for the Army staff in Washington, D.C., & wrote 8 books on military & medical history